2022 What Do You Know Championship: Ghanaian Paul Afari Mintah Wins Contest, Gets GH¢6,000 And Other Prizes

2022 What Do You Know Championship: Ghanaian Paul Afari Mintah Wins Contest, Gets GH¢6,000 And Other Prizes

  • A Ghanaian man, Paul Afari Mintah from BOA Amponsem JHS, has been adjudged winner of the 2022 What Do You Know Championship
  • He received GH¢6,000, a brand-new Accra-Teshie Nungua Rotary Club laptop, TECNO souvenirs, and other prizes
  • Mintah first won the contest in 2002, before 2008, and now the 2022 championship, making him a three-time winner

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Paul Afari Mintah from BOA Amponsem Junior High School in Dunkwa-on-Offin in Ghana's Central Region has won the 2022 What Do You Know Championship.

He defeated a fierce contest from his opponents during the intense finals at the Broadcasting House in Accra, where he garnered 13 points to win the 2022 coveted prize.

Photos as Ghanaian Paul Afari Mintah wins 2022 What Do You Know Championship.
Ghanaian Paul Afari Mintah wins the 2022 What Do You Know Championship. Photo credit: Kseniya Ovchinnikova/gbcghana.
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When Mintah joined the contest

Mintah's recent victory makes him the competition's three-winner. He entered What Do You Know in 1994 and has made it to the finals ten times. He won for the first time in 2002, then again in 2008, with his third victory coming on Sunday, September 3, 2023.

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Jude Ahorlu, his closest competitor, scored 12 points, while Abdul Latif Ibrahim, the runner-up, had 3. Haruna Mohammed finished fourth with only a point.

Mintah's winning prizes

Mintah received GH¢6,000, a brand-new Accra-Teshie Nungua Rotary Club laptop, and TECNO souvenirs such as a sports cup, journal, water purifier, and Bluetooth speaker as the ultimate winner. Second through fourth place winners received cash awards of GH¢4,000, GH¢3,000, and GH¢2500, respectively. TECNO also provided them with souvenirs, GBC Ghana Online reports.

GBC's quiz programme, What Do You Know, is one of the longest-running television shows on Ghana television. Congrats to the winner.

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He won after his exceptional performance in a series of staggering challenges, including the Truck Pull, Jumbo Deadlift, Superset Bench Press, Giant Tyre Flip, and Aboboyaa Deadlift.

Akolbila was among the competitors from across the country who pushed themselves to the utmost in the fiercely contested battle, said 3news.

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Source: YEN.com.gh

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.